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play it again sam
From Samuel Johnson. What a great writer.From The Vanity of Human Wishes, The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, Imitated. The first section: Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And … Continue reading
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Tagged boris johnson london mayor, Dr. Samuel Johnson, William Hogarth
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palladio no palladian
Was Palladio a Palladian? The “Palladian style” was celebrated throughout the Western world, yet the Master’s own works fit few of the formulas… It is an odd thesis to assert that Andrea Palladio is unknown. If any architect has achieved … Continue reading
andre francois: enjoying imperfection
Andre Francois was an exuberant satirist and prankster; unpredictable with witty insight and the clarity of high art… Whether art is good or bad has nothing to do with whether it is satiric or solemn. History has shown a long … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Francois art, Honore Daumier, Jacques Callot, William Hogarth
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high on the hog: boastful splendiferous types
…Of what there is no doubt is that this life was wasteful, extravagant, ostentatious- an appalling contrast, as Dr. Samuel Johnson noted, to the human wretchedness of rural or urban slums; yet it was saved both by its humanity and … Continue reading
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Tagged David Garrick, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Earl of Egremont, George Macaulay Trevelyan, George Stubbs, Henry Fielding, James Boswell, Johann Zoffany, John Berger, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Madame Pickwick, Sir Robert Walpole, Thomas Gainsborough, William Hogarth
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between the raindrops
Padding the wallet. Balzac – Behind every great fortune lies a crime. Behind every great fortune is a crime. Or perhaps a multiple series of crimes, a chain actions leading toward some altar of infinite power. The translation of Balzac’s original … Continue reading
titles and territory
In 1711, young Thomas Pelham-Holles, aged eighteen, succeeded his relative the Duke of Newcastle in estates ( although not in title) and became the possessor of thousands of acres in a dozen counties in England, enjoying a rent-roll of more … Continue reading
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Tagged Dukes of Bedford, Dukes of Buccleuch, James Macardell artist, John Giles Eccardt, John Wootton paintings, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Paul Sandby paintings, paul sandby watercolor, Sir Robert Walpole, Thomas Pelham-Holles, William Hoare painter, William Hogarth
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the other sides of midnight
Sin City. The moral cautionary tales as a somewhat more narrative and less complex representation than say Bruegel or Bosch though there is more sophistication than the often caricaturial elements would imply; misunderstood, these, over time become trivialized until they … Continue reading
the great estates: country life
The noble houses of eighteenth-century England… …The great age of building came to France in the sixteenth century, the time when many of the fabulous chateaux of the Loire were built, creating a tradition of palatial architecture which, modified and … Continue reading
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Tagged Cholmondeley Family, Christopher Wren, England Hanoverian kings, Georgian England, Horace Walpole, Houghton Hall England, Inigo Jones, John Wootton painter, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Walpole, Sir Robert Walpole, the Four Georges, William Hogarth
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trump these for size
The noble houses of eighteenth-century England. By 1750 the Western world had captured a vast commerce unequaled in human history. The riches derived from it, enabled men of property, the merchant class, to live in a sophisticated luxury previously enjoyed … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Palladio, David Chipperfield RA, English Tudor houses Hardwick Hall, English Tudor Houses Longleat, Filippo Brunelleschi, Jan Siberechts Dutch Artist, Lord Hervey, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michelangelo, Palladio, Palladio architecture, William Hogarth
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lap of luxury
Let them eat falafel. It’s a lot of money. But Arafat had big bucks too. All this smoke signals and noises about statehood from the Palestinian Authority could just be hot air used as a pretext for money. Blackmail. Or, … Continue reading
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